B.C.FAN wrote:I wouldn't paint the field but I sure wish those awful blue seats in B.C. Place could be replaced by black ones. They would absorb some of the excess light from overhead and wouldn't stand out as much as the blue ones.

Doesn't matter what color the seats are at Mosaic - they're always filled.

B.C.FAN wrote:I wouldn't paint the field but I sure wish those awful blue seats in B.C. Place could be replaced by black ones. They would absorb some of the excess light from overhead and wouldn't stand out as much as the blue ones.

Doesn't matter what color the seats are at Mosaic - they're always filled.

I hope that is the case in a couple of seasons of 500 ball as well, but we have seen that Stadium dip below the 20K mark in the recent past.

B.C.FAN wrote:I wouldn't paint the field but I sure wish those awful blue seats in B.C. Place could be replaced by black ones. They would absorb some of the excess light from overhead and wouldn't stand out as much as the blue ones.

Doesn't matter what color the seats are at Mosaic - they're always filled.

I hope that is the case in a couple of seasons of 500 ball as well, but we have seen that Stadium dip below the 20K mark in the recent past.

That's true - there were several years in the 80s and 90s where the Riders were lucky to draw 19k to the stadium. The wierd thing is over the last 5-7 years, it's become "cool" for Saskatchewan kids to cheer for the Riders. I remember back in high-school when I'd get mocked for wearing my Rider touque to school, when everybody else had NFL toques on. The Riders were your uncle's team and your dad's team, but not yours - too uncool.

Now we have a new generation of fans that have come on board and pack the stadium come game day. Unfortunately, there will be fairweather fans who will no doubt abandom the team when we have a sub-par season, as well as the brainless who think it's fun to chuck beer cans onto the field, but I imagine there are quite a few genuine Rider fans mixed in this new generation as well and I hope they'll keep coming to the games in the lean years.

That being said, everything is cyclical (sp?) and I do beleive the Riders are still peaking and will have several good seasons ahead of them before the lean years return.

I would think the most intimidating thing about I-never-win Stadium would be how close that da*n wall is to the sidelines!

I have never been to a CFL game in any other stadium, but I did see a Jays game at Skydome (yeah, I know, but it will always be Skydome to me ) waaay back when it was still fairly shiny & new (we're talking 1995 here, folks). I think I was too busy running around snapping photos to get much of an impression.

One of the coolest things about old Empire Stadium was the view of the Lions - the peaks, not the team - off in the distance while we were cheering for the Lions - the team, not the peaks. I'm looking forward to enjoying that purrfect sight again next season, just as long they don't bring back those old 2x8 wooden planks they used to call "seats"! I don't know if my butt can handle that much retro.

For the Grey Cup at McMahon Stadium, although the put the 2007 Grey Cup logo at centre field, they left the end zones the same showing the Stampeders logo at one side and the University of Calgary logo at the other. Sometimes the end zones will show the logos of the two finalists.

McMahon was totally undersized for this game
Terrible lineups primarily for the bathrooms
Some Calgarians I met were embarrassed by the poor facilities
Guess why there were 9 years between grey cups there

Another issue, looking at the overhead shot. It's very nice that the U of Calgary and Stampeders logos were on the field but should they not have been replaced with the Alouette and Roughrider logos? It's meant to be a neutral site. The participating teams logos ought to have been on there. Again, cheesy and something the Commissioner's Office needs to get a grip on.Those things need to be right in the hosting agreement.

Lions4ever wrote:Another issue, looking at the overhead shot. It's very nice that the U of Calgary and Stampeders logos were on the field but should they not have been replaced with the Alouette and Roughrider logos? It's meant to be a neutral site. The participating teams logos ought to have been on there.

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